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del Cardinal Bembo a St. Antonio in Padova
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Vischer, Peter
sculptor and bronze founder; b. probably between 1460 and 1470; d. 1487.
A son of Hermann Vischer; he received the title Meister in 1489, and was probably twenty-five or thirty-five years old at that time. He was intimately associated with Adam Kraft and the bronze worker Sebastian Lindenast. His five sons, Hermann, Peter, Hans, Paul, and Jakob, assisted him in his work. The elder sons, Hermann and Peter, were most skillful. From their atelier came the stature of Otto IV, Henneberg in the Stiftskirche of Römhild, the monuments of the bishops Heinrich III, Veit II, and Georg II in the cathedral of Bamberg (Bavaria), five monuments in the Fürstenkapelle at Meissen (Saxony), the monument of the bishop Johann IV in the cathedral of Breslau (about 1496), the monument of the Cardinal Friedrich in the cathedral of Krakau (Poland), the monument of Archbishop Ernst in the cathedral of Magdeburg (about 1497), etc. Peter Vischer's most important work is the great shrine of S. Sebaldus in the church of S. Sabeldus in Nürnberg (1508-1519). The first sketches of this work were made by Veit Stoss.
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